Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 45

              the committee on sports held its regular meeting saturday morn ing at 11 o'clock the business belore the meeting was to adopt regulation uniforms for the differ ent teams and also to decide on an official l and a uniform color the football uniform was not definitely decided on but in regard dr richards lecture the lecture given on saturday evening was in part a repetition of one which dr eichards delivered before the franklin institute of philadelphia in january last and which will be published in full in the journal of the franklin insti tute in either april or may the lantern slides over twenty in num ber were kindly loaned by the secretary of the franklin institute dr wahl the lecturer commenced with a plea for the correct use of the term aluminium ending in ium which was the term used by the discoverers of the metal the founder of the aluminium industry and is the term used by the whole civilized world out side of the united states and even here the use of the term is not universal a de scription was given of the alum of the ancients which was so named from lumen light because it was used in dyeing for brightening colors paracelsus the father of the alchemists first recognized the presence in alum of an earthly base while it was not till the middle of the eighteenth century that the base of alum was found to be one of the constituents of ordinary clay a professor of chemistry of paris baron was the first to attempt the reduction of aluminia the base of alum to the metalic state in 1760 it was only in 1827 that pro fessor wohler of goettingen isolated the metal by the use of metalic potassium ob taining it as a fine powder sainte-claire deville of paris in 1854 used sodium as a reducing agent and obtained the metal en bloc and founded the aluminium industry aluminium was made by his process in france until 1890 the ores of aluminium were next described to produce pure aluminium a pure compound must be re duced such as pure aluminia the most available mineral occurring in nature is bauxite containing aluminia water and a little silica and iron it is found in abund ance in southern france and in the state of georgia and will probably always be the principal sources of aluminium white china clay contains nearly equal amounts of silica and aluminia and would be available if a cheap process could be devised for sep arating out the aluminia cryolite an alum fluoride found in greenland was once used in the industry but is now only of secondary importance continued on fourth page the lecturer made three divisions of elec tric processes — electrolysis of aqueous solu tions fused salts and electro-thermal oper tions aluminium can not be extracted from aqueous oolutions by an electric current because the voltage required is too high the water is simultaneously decomposed and the metal obtained only as aluminia electro-platings of aluminium from aqueous solutions can be obtained ; as an , instance the upper iron work of the tower of the public building of philadelphia was referred to of which some 60 000 pounds of aluminium have been electro plated the reduction of aluminia in el-c tric furnaces in the presence of copper or iron to form alloys using the intense heat of the electric arc was next described ; none of such processes are now in operation the electrolysis of fused salts was first applied by deville in 1865 who decomposed fused aluminium cloride the present process of decomposing aluminia dissolved in a fused bath of aluminium and sodium fluorides the processes of hall in america and her oult in europe were next described this process is now being carried on in five works one near pittsburg one at niagara falls one in switzerland and two in france the combined capacity of which is 2,000 tons per annum new works are be ing built at niagara falls in scotland nor way and on the rhine near basle which at the next sophomore essay is due on april 1 subjects the growth of the spirit of liberty in the american colonies ; " " the probable effects of the adoption of burk's peace policy the senior civils have finished the book on hydraulics and in its place they are having lectures ok arches and retaining walls by prof merriman the 96 class book board has secured a room in the postoffice building where in the future it will hold its meetings and do its work this was rendered necessary by the immense amount of material which the board must handle and which no one man could care for the junior m e.s go to new york next week on a shop visit lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday march 16 1896 vol 111 into 45 the brown and white calendar thursday march 19 — lecture hjr dr worcester subject the early victories of buddhism the buddhistic church vine street school 8 p m meeting of mathematical club physical laboratory t p m meeting of electrical en gineering society physical laboratory 7 p m meeting of civil section of engineering society physical laboratory 7 p m meeting of 97 epitome board phi delta theta house 7 p m meeting of sophomore cal culus cremation committee at delta phi house 7.30 p m friday march 20 — meeting of chess club in lounging room 8 p m pennsylvania intercollegi ate oratorical union's contest at swathmore pa college hall ; admission 50 cents saturday march 21 — mr.meaker's class in calculus 10 a m agora debate on cuban question 7.30 p m notices a very important meeting of the sophomore calculus cremation committee will be held at the delta phi house at 7.30 p m thursday march 19 chaieman to the other two teams and the l and color the following rules were passed : rule i the regulation l " shall be a regular block " l seven inches in height rule 11 the regulation colors shall be brown and white the for mer to be a deep seal brown and the latter cream white rule 111 the regulation uni form of the baseball team shall be as follows leather shoes plain brown stockings plain brown jersey suitably padded pants grey shirt the name lehigh across the chest brown sweater white turtle neck cape collar a two-inch stripe of white bordering the collar regula tion " l " on chest belt cap etc to be left at discre tion of manager rule iv the regulation uni form of the lacrosse team shall be as follows canvas shoes brown socks short white pants plain brown jersey with 4-inch block " l " on chest brown sweater white turtle neck cape collar two 2-inch stripes of white on collar separated by £. 2-inch stripe of brown one white stripe bordering regulation l " on chest belt cap etc to be left to the discretion of manager no definite rules were passed concerning the costume of the track team under the head of new business the committee decided to give the final " smoker " of the year next saturday evening in the gymna sium there being no other busi ness the meeting adjourned the regular meeting of the mathematical club will be held wednesday evening at 7.15 o'clock in the examination hall of the physical laboratory merriman 97 will read a paper entitled the projective generation of conic sections now is your time to pay your athletic dues a collector will be in jim's room tuesday and wed nesday mornings from 8.30 to 12.30 o'clock only 2.00 executive committe at a meeting of the executive committee held last monday the following resolution in regard to the wearing of the " l " was finally adopted : whereas in past years the wear ing of the " l upon the breast has not been restricted within any fixed limits and there has been no regu larity in the uniforms of the differ ent teams ; therefore be it resolved that the follow ing regulations concerning the wearing of the " l " upon the breast be adopted and that the committee on sports be given the power to decide upon regular uniforms for the different teams subject to the approval of the executive com mittee : rules for wearing the " l football team — a man to earn the right to wear the l " must have played through at least three games one of which must be one of the more important games of the season as to which the committee on sports shall determine baseball team — a man to earn the right to wear the l " must have played in at least five games during the season or be one of the regular change battery lacrosse team — a man to earn the right to wear the l " must have played through at least one of the championship games the managers of the various teams shall submit the names of the different men who are in their opinion entitled to wear the l " to the committee on sports for ap proval no sweater will be given out until such approval shall have been given track team — a man to earn the right to wear the " l " must either win a place in the annual games of the inter collegiate athletic asso ciation or in the collegiate games must equal or surpass the following standards : 100 yards 10 2-5 seconds 220 yards 23 1-5 seconds 440 yards 53 seconds half mile 2.05 1 mile 4.50 1-mile walk 7.50 2-mile bicycle 5 40 120-yard hurdle 17 seconds 220-yard hurdle 27 1-5 seconds running high jump „ 5 ft . 7 in running broad jump 21 feet throwing hammer 100 feet putting shot 35 feet pole vault 9 ft 6 in in case of any dispute under this resolution it shall be referred to and be settled by the committee on sports this resolution does not apply to any men who are at present wearing the " l chicago lehigh club the informal monthly dinner of the chicago lehigh club was held tuesday march 10 at 6.30 p m at the bismarck cafe sixteen loyal and enthusiastic lehigh men were present and many stories of lehigh days gone by were passed around the board after dinner a song recital was held and all le high songs both of the past and present were sung again and again the club at chicago is one of the most active of all the alumni organizations and these informal monthly meetings do a great deal to keep the alumni in touch both among themselves and with the college those present were prussing 73 porter 78 jeuness 85 thomas 85 de cueto 86 spangler 86 hittell 87 bates 89 kafferty 91 khodes 92 kel ler 93 warner 93 carnell 94 maharg 94 ayres 95 and baker 95 ♦ ■— the lyceum building at yale erected in 1804 will be torn down next summer committee on sports